Brokenwood Wines Indigo Vineyard Beechworth Chardonnay 2019
- 95
- $66
- Drink by: 2020 - 2028
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These guys have been dabbing in Beechworth for some years now, especially with varieties like chardonnay, where the cooler environs are ideal for the variety. It’s a classy wine with a portion of barrel fermentation adding palate and aromatic complexity and texture. About one third was new oak, and that’s important to spice things up. Whole bunch pressing, which can be tricky if the fruit and stalks are not ripe, has brought further structure into the palate. Yet it retains an essential fine
purity with a mix of peach and pear with an edge of grapefruit.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
